The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: elementary school Niederheide 1 segment from Bornholmer Street (moved to Brazil) Since 2013, a class from the elementary school Niederheide in Hohen Neuendorf, northeast of Berlin, has been in contact with the Brazilian school of music Lyra Mogimiriana in Mogi Mirim. When the Brazilian kids stayed in Brandenburg in September 2015 a Berlin Wall […]
Location: Institute of European Cultur 2 segmente In Spring 2014 on occasion of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, a Berlin Wall memorial was set up in Gniezno in front of the Institute of European Cultur. The inauguration was part of a series of events within the framework The victory […]
Location: Stahnsdorf station 1 segment Stahnsdorf station, located in today’s administrative district Potsdam-Mittelmark, southwest of Berlin, started operations in 1913 as terminal of the Friedshofsbahn. Already at the end of the 19th century, Berlin recognized a lack of buriel grounds. Therefore, the economic administration of Berlin’s protestant church bought an 150 ha wide area at […]
Location: Willy-Brandt-Haus 1 segment Willy Brandt (1913-1992), chairman of the SPD, Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is one of the outstanding German statesmen of the 20th century. His name is used synonymously with democracy and freedom, understanding between nations, peace, justice, solidarity and social responsibility. His biography is primarily shaped by his resistance […]
Location: district Buchhorst 1 segment A Berlin Wall memorial to commemorate personal merit to the German Reunification: Walter Link, politician from Wehrbleck, deceased in 2010, was (i.a.) member of the German Bundestag. In his laudatio on the occasion of the inauguration of the memorial, Rainer Eppelmann, civil rights campaigner and retired Minister, said Link […]